FINDING HOME

We are a city of immigrants, we know, but what does this mean for each of us? Can Toronto be made to feel like home when it’s so different from fill-in-the-blank where we came from? And when we go back there, if we can, is it home anymore? How do we cope with the absences in our lives when we move here? Does the impact of immigrants change our city until it doesn’t feel like home? Or until it finally does? We explore some of the myriad aspects of being at home.

AT HOME IN LONDON AND TORONTO
by Colin Leys
How does living in London compare to living in Toronto? Colin Leys has inhabited both cities over a number of years and has some thought-provoking and amusing insights into Old World versus New World living.

COMMENT

YES, where is home was always a big hmmmmm, growing up. Born in France of Swiss-German parents, lived in France, India, US and settled in Canada!
Insisted early on in Toronto (’72) that people call me Anne, the way the French say it; all the Anglos could pronounce was a john without the J!
Oh well…,
love the postings,
Anne Egger, Toronto